Current practice of emergency vagotomy and Helicobacter pylori eradication for complicated peptic ulcer in the United Kingdom

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 88-90

  Gilliam, A D ^a   Speake, W J ^a   Lobo, D N ^a   Beckingham, I J ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM BLEEDING; DUODENUM ULCER; ERADICATION THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; ULCER PERFORATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VAGOTOMY; EMERGENCY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; MEDICAL PROFESSION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PEPTIC ULCER BLEEDING; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE;

ANTIULCER AGENT;

ANTI-ULCER AGENTS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DUODENAL ULCER; EMERGENCIES; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; PEPTIC ULCER HEMORRHAGE; PEPTIC ULCER PERFORATION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SPECIALISM; VAGOTOMY;

EID: 0037271082     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.4003     Document Type: Article

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